From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 00:07:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8F016A400 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ggm@apnic.net) Received: from mint.apnic.net (mint.apnic.net [202.12.29.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7D813C448 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ggm@apnic.net) Received: from asmtp.apnic.net (garlic.apnic.net [202.12.29.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mint.apnic.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB790D5F2D for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:48:06 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:48:06 +1000 From: George Michaelson To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070620094806.3a95ec40@garlique.algebras.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386--netbsdelf) X-Fruit-Of-The-Month-Club: persimmon Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: how do you bring IPv6 live without reboot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:07:13 -0000 on a 6-STABLE host, I added: ipv6_enable="YES" ipv6_network_interfaces="bge1" to rc.conf, and ran /etc/rc.d/network_ipv6 this did not bring IPv6 live. rtsol reported problems with get_llflag() calls. However across reboot, the system came up with IPv6 fine. Can somebody explain why this won't work if run after the init sequence has run to completion? What is the sequence of commands that when run on an active FreeBSD system causes it to successfully bind to IPv6? -George